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Die braun-grüne
Achse
NPD
und Islamisten. Am
2.9.2006 marschierten ca. 250 Nazis durch Dortmund:
"Gegen imperialistische Kriegstreiberei und Aggressionskriege. Für
freie Völker in einer freien Welt" und "Weltweit den
Antizionismus vorantreiben" (de.indymedia.org
.) Originalton der "nationalen
Sozialisten" (1. Rede des Downloads: "Der
Imperialismus ist das übelste Stadium des Kapitalismus".
Christian
Worch und Konsorten haben offenbar nicht nur ihren Hitler
studiert, sondern auch Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin. So sind die
Nazis nach zwei Seiten hin bündnisfähig, zu den Islamisten und zu
den Bolschewisten. Von letzteren haben schon etliche das
nationalrevolutionäre Element für sich entdeckt, andere zieren sich
noch etwas, in die Querfront auch offiziell einzusteigen.
NPD-Voigt kommt anläßlich der Bombenfunde in
Deutschland bündnismäßig ins Schwimmen: "Bei allem Verständnis
für die schwierige politische Situation im Libanon und in Palästina
muss potentiellen Terroristen klar gemacht werden, dass wir in unserem
Land die Fortsetzung fremder Konflikte nicht dulden werden". TP Aus Freund wird wieder Feind
Jeffrey Herf
(Professor, Department of History, University of Md, jherf@umd.edu):
Nazi
Germany Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II
and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings.
During World War II and the Holocaust, the Nazi regime engaged in an
intensive effort to appeal to Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East
and North Africa.1 It did
so both by presenting the Nazi regime as a champion of secular
anti-imperialism, especially against Britain, as well as by a
selective appropriation and reception of the traditions of Islam in
ways that suggested their compatibility with the ideology of
National Socialism.... In light of new archival findings (Beginning
in summer 1941, under the direction of recently arrived American
Ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Kirk, American diplomats in the Cairo
Embassy began to transcribe and translate the Axis–that is Italian
and German Arabic broadcasts), we are now able to present a full
picture of the wartime propaganda barrage in the course of which
officials of the Nazi regime worked with pro-Nazi Arab exiles in
Berlin to adapt general propaganda themes aimed at its German and
European audiences to the religious traditions of Islam and the
regional and local political realities of the Middle East and North
Africa.... In wartime Berlin, radical anti-Semitism of European and
German speaking provenance found common ground with radical
anti-Semitism rooted in Koranic verses and the commentaries on them
in the traditions of Islam. Just as Nazi anti-Semitism was a
radicalization of already existing elements within European culture,
so the anti-Semitism of the pro-Nazi Arab exiles resulted from a
radicalization of already existing elements within the traditions of
Islam.... They produced texts and broadcasts that they could not
have produced on their own.... Nazism became less euro-centric while
Arab and Islamic radicalism drew on modern, European totalitarian
ideology.... The Nazis spoke the secular language of attacks on
American, British and “Jewish” imperialism while also appealing to
what they depicted as the ancient traditions of hatred of the Jews
in Islam itself. Nazi Germany presented itself both as an ally of
Arab anti-imperialism as well as a soul mate of the religion of
Islam.
In 1965, the East German historian Heinz Tillmann
in "Deutschlands Araberpolitik im Zweiten Weltkrieg"
(East Berlin, 1965) drew
on then available German archives to examine the policy of “German
imperialism” in the Middle East from the 1930s up to spring 1943. In
1966, Lukasz Hirszowicz’ (a Polish lecturer at the
University of Warsaw) "The Third Reich and the Arab East" presented
an enduring synthesis of military, diplomatic and political history
up to the end of World War II. (Routledge & Kegan Paul Pubs.,
London, 1966).
Nazi broadcasts repeated that the values of Islam, such as piety,
obedience, community, unity rather than skepticism, individualism
and division were similar to those of Nazi Germany.... This and
other broadcasts conveyed the message that a revival of
fundamentalist Islam was a parallel project to National Socialism’s
political and ideological revolt against Western political modernity....
On December 12, 1940, for example, German radio announced that Islam
“is a religion of the community, not a religion of the individual.
It is thus a religion of the common welfare (Gemeinnutzes) and not
of self-interest (Eigennutzes). Islam therefore is a just and true
nationalism for it calls on the Muslim to place the general interest
ahead of private interests, to live not for himself but for his
religion and his fatherland. This is the most important goal that
Islam follows. It is at the basis of its prayers and commandments.”
At 8:15 pm Cairo time on July 7, 1942 the Americans recorded one of
the most inflammatory broadcasts: "...we think it best, if the life
of the Egyptian nation is to be saved, that the Egyptians rise as
one man to kill the Jews before they have a chance of betraying the
Egyptian people. It is the duty of the Egyptians to annihilate the
Jews and to destroy their property. Egypt can never forget that it
is the Jews who are carrying out Britain’s imperialist policy in the
Arab countries and that they are the source of all the disasters,
which have befallen the countries of the East...You must kill the
Jews, before they open fire on you. Kill the Jews, who have
appropriated your wealth and who are plotting against your security.
Arabs of Syria, Iraq and Palestine, what are you waiting for? The
Jews are planning to violate your women, to kill your children and
to destroy you. According to the Muslim religion, the defense of
your life is a duty which can only be fulfilled by annihilating the
Jews. This is your best opportunity to get rid of this dirty race,
which has usurped your rights and brought misfortune and destruction
on your countries. Kill the Jews, burn their property, destroy their
stores, annihilate these base supporters of British imperialism.
Your sole hope of salvation lies in annihilating the Jews before
they annihilate you.”
Throughout World War II, Nazi Germany presented itself to Arabs and
Muslims as a champion of anti-imperialism.
On November 3, 1943, the Voice of Free Arabism discussed “Palestine
between the Bolsheviks and the Jews: "The world will never be at
peace until the Jewish race is exterminated., otherwise wars will
always exist. The Jews are the germs which have caused all the
trouble in the world."
One of Haj Amin el-Husseini’s distinctive
contributions to the fusion and diffusion of radical anti-Semitism
to the Arab and Islamic societies lay in his ability to combine Nazi
ideology with references to the Koran: The Jews who had “tormented
the world for ages have been the enemy of the Arabs and of Islam
since its emergence. The Holy Koran expressed this old enmity in the
following words: ‘You will find that those who are most hostile to
the believers are the Jews.’ They tried to poison the great and
noble prophets. They resisted them, were hostile to them and [they]
intrigued against them. This was the case for 1,300 years. For all
that time, they have not stopped spinning intrigues against the
Arabs and Muslims.”.. On Berlin in Arabic on March 1, 1944
Haj Amin el-Husseini stated that the “wicked American
intentions toward the Arabs are now clearer, and there remain no
doubts that they are endeavoring to establish a Jewish empire in the
Arab world. More than 400,000.000 Arabs oppose this criminal
American movement...Arabs! Rise as one and fight for your
sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases
God, history and religion. This serves your honor. God is with you.”(emphasis
in original).
On June 11, 1946, Hassan al-Banna, leader of the
Muslim Brotherhood, sent the following statement to
officials of the Arab League: "...the Mufti is
welcome to stay in any Arab country he may choose... The lion is at
least free and he will roam the Arabian jungle to clear it of the
wolves...What a hero, what a miracle of a man... Yes, this hero
who challenged an empire and fought Zionism, with the help of Hitler
and Germany. Germany and Hitler are gone, but Amin
Al-Husseini will continue the struggle...God entrusted
him with a mission and he must succeed..."
Far from criticizing him for having sided with “Germany and Hitler,”
al-Banna expressed admiration for Husseini’s wartime activities.
Living in wartime Cairo, al-Banna and the members of the Muslim
Brotherhood would have been able to hear what Husseini and others on
Axis radio had to say.
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz:
GERMANY'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY
At times of peace, Germany’s Middle East policy has
historically taken a secondary position—one subordinate to Germany’s
primary policy toward Europe and America. While of secondary
importance, it was a tool that could be used to manipulate the
Middle Eastern Question by playing off Western powers against each
other. Berlin’s goal was a peaceful penetration of the Ottoman
Empire, and it had no colonial aspirations in the region. During the
world wars, however, Berlin elevated its Middle East policy to
primary status by instigating jihad in the enemy’s hinterland. Yet
in recent years, Berlin has sought out policies on Middle East peace
and Islam fitting the European framework.
When the German Reich was established in 1871, the neighboring
countries of Great Britain, France, and Russia were already
expanding their overseas colonies into empires. During the next four
decades, while these empires continued to grow, Berlin was forced to
develop a policy toward North Africa and West Asia that differed
from those of the other European powers.
Did the Germans push the Young Turks to proclaim jihad
after entering World War I against the British, the Russians, and
the French? Indeed they did, maintained the leading Dutch Arabist,
C. Snouck Hurgronje, who blamed his German colleagues—among
them Carl Heinrich Becker—for having supported this
“jihad fever.” Jihad developed as
a concerted German-Ottoman campaign. Invoking jihad was the idea of
Max von Oppenheim, the German “Abu Jihad.”
In late October 1914, before the Ottomans had entered the war (siding
with the Central Powers), he designed a master plan “fomenting
rebellion in the Islamic territories of our enemies". The Germans
would provide intelligence to the Muslims, while the Turks would
incite them to rise up against their foreign masters. Islam,
concluded Max von Oppenheim, would be one of
Germany’s sharpest weapons against the British. Enver Pasha
had asked Shaykh Salih to travel to Berlin to
promote the idea of jihad among the Germans. It was rather
unfortunate that renowned German Oriental experts such as
Carl Heinrich Becker, Martin Hartmann, Ernst Jäckh, and
Max von Oppenheim unleashed the old genie of pure religious
hatred.
World War II: Through broadcasts to the Middle
East, the Grand Mufti aided the Germans by
declaring jihad against the Allies for which he found German
supporters. After Paris’ fall, Max von Oppenheim
forwarded an adapted version of his old jihad plan. It was proposed
that a government under the leadership of Amin al-Husayni
be established in Palestine. Young Egyptian officers, among
them Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat,
placed their hopes of ridding their country of the British on the
Germans. It was not German racism or anti-Semitism that attracted
them, but the thorough and fast modernization of Germany under the
Nazi dictatorship. Arab nationalists originally admired the fascism
of Mussolini, and consequently also of
Hitler, as an alternative to Anglo-Saxon democracy and as a
modernistic movement.
The Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem and the Iraqi premier
sent their envoys to visit a concentration camp near Berlin, as a
recently discovered report by Dr. Fritz Grobba
indicates. Thus, both leaders and
their entourages knew of the existence of such camps and were able
to anticipate their use in the coming genocide.
Wolfgang Schwanitz:
Amin-al-Husaini-and-the-holocaust-what-did-the-grand-mufti-know?
(WPR, 5/8/2008)
Matthias Küntzel: Von Radio Zeesen 1939 zum TV-Sender "Leuchtfeuer"
(Al-Manar) heute. Radio Zeesen sendete täglich sein
arabischsprachiges Programm. Von allen fremdsprachigen Redaktionen
hatte die Orient-Redaktion „absoluten Vorrang. Sie sendete für
Araber, Türken, Perser und Inder und brachte es auf rund achtzig
Mitarbeiter, freiberufliche Sprecher und Übersetzer
eingeschlossen.“ Programmhöhepunkte bei Radio Zeesen waren die
Djihad-Aufrufe der damals populärsten Figur in der
arabisch-islamischen Welt, des Mufti von Jerusalem, Amin
el-Husseini (1895–1974). Seit 1941 lebte dieser in Berlin und
beaufsichtigte die arabischen Rundfunkausstrahlungen aus Zeesen, Athen
und Rom. Während der palästinensischen Aufstandsbewegung von 1936
bis 1939 fungierte das Hakenkreuz als Erkennungssymbol. „Der
Mufti selbst gab zu, dass es seinerzeit nur durch die ihm von den
Deutschen gewährten Geldmittel möglich war, den Aufstand in Palästina
durchzuführen. Von Anfang an stellte er hohe finanzielle Forderungen,
denen die Nazis in sehr großem Maße nachkamen." (Klaus Gensicke,
Der Mufti von Jerusalem, Amin el-Husseini, und die
Nationalsozialisten, Frankfurt/M. 1988, S.233f). Die Kämpfe in Palästina
machten beispielsweise die 1928 gegründete Keimzelle des Islamismus,
die ägyptische Moslembruderschaft, zu jener einflussreichen
Organisation, aus deren Reihen später nicht nur die Hamas,
sondern auch Osama bin Ladens „Islamische Weltfront für den
Djihad gegen Juden und Kreuzfahrer“ hervorgegangen ist. Das
nazistische Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro (DNB) in Kairo stellte
der Moslembruderschaft erhebliche Finanzmittel zur Verfügung.
Die internationale Medienkampagne gegen die Juden, die vor 60 Jahren
mit einem „Fernkampfgeschütz im Äther“ (Goebbels) begann, wird
heute als Nahkampfanleitung per Satellit fortgesetzt. Je blutiger die
Massaker in Israel und Palästina, desto höher die Einschaltquote für
Al-Manar. In Europa wird dieser Sender, der seine Unkosten
unter anderem mit Werbeeinlagen von Maggi, Henkel und Milka deckt, über
den Satellitenbetreiber Eutelsat und dessen Satellit Hotbird
4 ausgestrahlt...
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